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A Patek Philippe pocket watch. This list of most expensive watches sold at auction documents the watches sold at auction worldwide for at least 1.5 million US dollars.The final price listed is the total price paid by the buyer converted to US dollars, according to the currency exchange rate at the time of auction.
At Christie’s “Top of the Time” online auction based out of auction house’s Hong Kong outfit, a Patek Philippe ‘Sky Moon Tourbillon’ sold for $5.8 million to an anonymous buyer. This ...
The watch was reportedly the culmination of a watch arms race between Graves and James Ward Packard. The Super-complication took three years to design and five to build, and sports a chart of the nighttime sky at Graves' home in New York. It remains the most complicated watch (920 parts) [17] built without the assistance of computers. [18]
In 2002, Antiquorum set the all-time world record for a wristwatch at auction, selling a unique 1939 platinum Patek Philippe World Time Ref. 1415 for US$4,026,524 (SFr. 6,603,500) - more than double the previous world record. [4] On October 16, 2008, Antiquorum sold a gold Longines wristwatch once owned by Albert Einstein for US$596,000 in New ...
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The Patek Philippe 5208P is one of the most expensive watches the world -- See what makes it so special.
The price of US$17.75 M makes it the most expensive wristwatch ever sold. [43] In 1984, when Newman gave the watch to James Cox, the watch was selling for about $200. [18] Cox announced his plans to donate a significant portion of the proceeds to the Nell Newman Foundation [3] and Newman's Own Foundation. [20]
On November 12, 2016, a Ref. 1518 in steel became the most expensive wristwatch ever sold at auction (until October 2017), fetching a record-breaking US$11.14 million (11,002,000 CHF) in Geneva (through Phillips' auction house). [80] As the successor, Ref. 2499 is widely considered to be one of the greatest watch models in the world.